Matthew 20:20–23: Reflecting on the Scripture “John’s Mother Salome Makes a Request of the Lord”

By Zhang Yue It’s recorded in Matthew 20:20–23, “Then came to Him the mother of Zebedees children with her sons, worshipping Him, and desiring a certain thing of Him. And He said to her, What will you? She said to Him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, ...

Bible Verse–Revelation 16:16

And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

How to Pray to Be Heard by God

By Cindy, United States All believers in God know that praying is the only way through which our spirits can connect with God’s Spirit, and that we cannot practice our faith without it. However, many of us have no idea what true prayer is though we make pra...

Bible Verse–Psalm 34:17

The righteous cry, and the LORD hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

Bible Verses–John 15:12-13

This is my commandment, That you love one another, as I have loved you.13Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Bible Verse–Ecclesiastes 7:9

Be not hasty in your spirit to be angry: for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

Is God Always Merciful and Loving?

The Bible records: “Now the word of Jehovah came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before Me” (Jonah 1:1–2). “And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he ...